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seanh17289012
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August 3, 2020
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How to create an outline around a graphic or shape in Premiere Pro???

  • August 3, 2020
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So I will be working on a project pretty soon where I will have to take graphics, which are suppose to prepresent people in a podcast, and create a plain colored outline around said graphic when its corresponding person is talking. Essentially, I need the borders of the graphic to light up when the person is talking and then dissapear when the person is silent.

 

The problem that I am having is that I don't know how to do this in Premier Pro, but I did learn how to do it in After Effects from this tutiorial (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU4NIWsuf20).
In Premier, I was able to create a stroke around a shape, but I couldn't keyframe it to appear and dissapear (unlike in After Effects).

 

Does anyone know how to do the same effect from the tutorial above in Premiere Pro???

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Martin291366308sr7
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March 29, 2023

I use rectangle tool, remove the fill and then start and stop the asset according to when I want it to appear / disappear.

Ann Bens
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Ann BensCommunity Expert
Community Expert
August 3, 2020

This kind of FX is best done in Ae.

In the tutorial the stroke is added to a static image not a moving/talking person.

You need to mask first, nest, then add a radial shadow if its a static image.

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    seanh17289012Author
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    August 3, 2020

    So the graphic that I want to do this with will also be static. Is there a way to avoid masking it?

    Ann Bens
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    Ann BensCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    August 3, 2020

    Pen tool in the ess graphics, but you need to draw a closed path. If you leave it open you cannot add nodes later on.

    Ae is realy the way to go.

     

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